The world is full of fun stuffs and it just doesn’t get enough. In the past we have seen such coordinated movement of the masses in The Great Freeze here and here. Today we see another amazing feat done by 700 ordinary humans. And mind you, they are braving the rain just for this coordinated adventure too.

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The Experiment

we had two ideas sent to us in one week that seemed to work perfectly together. Agent Taliaferrow suggested that we do “the wave” across the Brooklyn Bridge, and Agent Gee suggested that we create a wave of camera flashes on a Manhattan street. We put the two together and The Camera Flash Experiment was born.

For the mission, we would have agents line the length of the Brooklyn Bridge and then film and photograph the mission from the Manhattan Bridge, about 500 yards to the north. We weren’t sure how the flashes would look from that distance, so a small crew conducted a test run about a month before the mission. Agents Shafer, Adams, and I set up on the Manhattan Bridge pedestrian walkway and shot video of Agents Fountain, Walker, Gallagher, and Sokoler creating camera flashes on the Brooklyn Bridge walkway.

Freaking Awesome!

The biggest challenge of all in this mission was the weather. As Friday neared, the forecast looked worse and worse. We had over 700 RSVPs for the mission, and a few agents had made travel plans. Agent Nicholson, our longtime photographer, had already bought a plane ticket to fly back from a trip to Los Angeles to shoot the mission. We decided to move forward rain or shine and hope for the best. The mission would still work in the rain and promised to be a crazy adventure either way.

[Read more personal accounts, High-res photographs and the whole process HERE!]